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Vol. 88 No. 170 USPS 045360 8 Pages
College Station, Texas
Thursday, July 13,1989
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T rav eler s who arrive at Texas
n both hot hL&M’s Easterwood Airport will
ptiBet a completely different recep-
pon this November.
I Instead of the little red-brick
building that now serves as Eas-
lerwood’s terminal, air passen
gers will arrive at a sparkling new
iwo-level modern structure.
I The William A. McKenzie Ter-
Ininal, with more than five times
Its much space as the old one, will
fce able to accommodate up to
1 four airlines and will have space
l VS ill f (,r a restaurant.
I Gen. Wesley E. Peel, vice chan-
Aol fdlor for facilities planning and
LCtl construction, said A&M is build
ing the new terminal to improve
xansportation in the area.
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n the Bryan-Gollege Station area
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will help attract large firms to the
area, he added, and this will help
he area’s economy and research
ifforts at A&M.
The Texas A&M System will be
n charge of running the termi
nal, and is responsible for fund
ing most of its S14 million cost.
The Federal Aviation Associa
tion paid $2.5 million of the cost,
and local governments paid more
than $750,000.
The construction project in
cludes extending a runway and
Construction continues on the William A. Mc
Kenzie Terminal at Easterwood Airport. The
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
two-level structure will be able to accommo
date up to four airlines and a restaurant.
building a parking apron for air
craft, an access road and a 225-
space parking lot.
The airport will be able to han
dle any commercial aircraft, Peel
said, and the new terminal can ac
commodate jetways if the need
arises in the future.
Peel said the area around the
airport will be landscaped and
1,800 trees will be planted.
The old terminal will be reno
vated for exclusive use by private
aircraft. Three airlines now oper
ate out of the old terminal.
The new terminal will have
more than enough capacity to
handle the area’s current needs,
Peel said, and the building can be
expanded to accommodate more
than four airlines if necessary.
A&M system official
will head black college
program in Washington
By Fiona Soites
CITY EDITOR
salutes Hungary for strides
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aiding an J BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — President
m of Con Bush, proclaiming “the Iron Curtain has begun
document to part,” saluted on Wednesday Hungary’s
ega) grainpUdes toward economic and political freedom,
i the l®H e pledged to open U.S. markets to Hungarian
gonds and send the first Peace Corps volunteers
■rer to a communist country,
r / His message was greeted with a standing
/ pCf ovation by the students of Karl Marx University
oF Economic Sciences, where “Das Kapital,” the
Mndmark treatise of the father of communism, is
-t V(Yt no longer required reading.
^ idl F° r Bush, nearing the end of a four-day swing
■trough Poland and Hungary before flying to
laris on Thursday for the economic summit, it
las another dramatic gesture on his delicate mis-
bout ll^lon of encouraging democratic freedoms in the
liom U last Bloc without antagonizing the Soviet Union,
federal61 “For the First time, the Iron Curtain has begun
I. fjto part, and Hungary, your great country, is
NewMf leading the way,” Bush said, standing on a uni-
iho anthlersity stage against a backdrop of Hungarian
i said UVand American flags.
test. [I Bush said Hungary will soon be granted most
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Robert K. Goodwin, assistant dep
uty chancellor for external affairs
for the Texas A&M University Sys
tem, will join the U.S. Department of
Education in Washington, D.C., July
31 in a top position.
Goodwin has been named direc
tor of the White House Initiative for
Historically Black Colleges and Uni
versities.
“I’m enthused,” Goodwin said.
“There’s a high level of commitment
to ensuring the viability of the col
leges and universities by President
Bush and Secretary of Education
Lauro Cavazos. I’m very excited
about the prospects of working on
their team.”
As part of the team, Goodwin will
be responsible for monitoring and
finding ways to increase funding for
research and development, facilities
and equipment, student assistance,
training, fellowships and program
evaluation at the nation’s 104 histori
cally black institutions.
“Last year $1 billion was provided
(to the colleges and universities) in
these categories,” he said. “We want
to increase that amount and stimu
late the private sector.”
Goodwin said the Presidential
Commission on Historically Black
Colleges and Universities, a group
formed by President George Bush
earlier this year, will look for ways to
strengthen these institutions.
Bush created the commission
when renewing the 1980 executive
order by President Jimmy Carter
that formed the Initiative.
Goodwin, who is a former admin
istrator at Prairie View A&M Uni
versity, said his past experiences
qualify him for the position.
“I’ve had intimate involvement in
three of the primary institutions that
are concerned — the black church.
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Robert K. Goodwin
black press and historical black colle
ge,” he said. “I have a unique back
ground from w'hich to help analyze
and interpret many of the most sig
nificant issues affecting black aware
ness in our goal of full integration
into structure.”
Goodwin was sales manager for
the National University Society, pub
lisher of the Oklahoma Eagle news
paper, he has held various ministe
rial positions with both the
Presbyterian and the Baptist
churches and he served as associate
director of the Tulsa Urban League.
A native of Tulsa, Goodwin holds
an undergraduate degree in socio
logy from Oral Roberts University
and a master’s dgree from the Grad
uate Theological Union in Berkeley,
Calif. He is now completing his
course work toward a doctoral de
gree in educational administration at
Texas A&M.
nation trading status by the United
States, and he announced plans to ask Congress
for $25 million in new aid to spur the Hungari
ans’ moves toward a free-market economy.
Hungarian leaders gave a delighted Bush a
snippet of the barbed wire fence they recently re
moved from their border with Austria — a bar
rier that Bush said had stood as “the ugly symbol
of Europe’s division and Hungary’s isolation.”
“That is just beautiful,” the president said.
“That’s a marvelous symbol of this whole visit.”
“There is no mistaking the fact that we are on
the threshold of a new era,” Bush said in his
speech. “And there is also no mistaking the fact
that Hungary is at the threshold of great and his
toric changes.”
Imre Pozsgay, one of Hungary’s four commu
nist leaders, told Bush the changes in his country
were “irreversible,” and he said the ruling com
munists would “accept the results of free elec
tions” scheduled next year arid step down if de
feated.
Bush’s aid package was similar to the one he
presented Monday to Poland, with a twist: the
first-ever Peace Corps volunteers dispatched to a
communist country.
Their aim will be to teach English to Hungari
ans. Bush said the English language is already
“one of the most popular American exports,”
and a key to closing business deals around the
world.
In this East Bloc state long home to thousands
of Soviet troops and arms, Bush also outlined his
hopes for deep cuts in conventional arms in Eu
rope. “We’re working day and night to get a
solid, historic agreement,” Bush said.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III said later
that NATO will formally present its conventional
arms proposal to the Warsaw Pact in Vienna on
Thursday, before those talks recess until Septem
ber.
Bush also held meetings with Hungarian gov
ernment leaders and opposition figures. He con
ferred with student leaders and gave two a lift to
the university in his limousine. After the speech
he strolled through a nearby market, shaking
hands and plucking a wad of Hungaiian cur
rency from his pocket to purchase a dozen ripe
peaches.
Texas begins sending 2,000
trucks of toxic dirt to Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) —
The first of 2,000 truckloads of toxic
dirt began its journey today from an
abandoned industrial site near
Houston to a hazardous waste land
fill in west Alabama.
The first of 10 plastic-lined
trucks, each carrying more than 23
tons of contaminated soil, was re
ported on the road for the 600-mile
trip to Alabama by 9 a.m. CDT.
They were expected in the state
about 9 p.m.
“The process is very similar to
loading dirt anywhere, except that
the workers are wearing plastic suits
and breathing filters while working
around the trucks,” Bill Colbert, a
Texas Water Commission spokes
man, said. “We also have a wash
down facility to decontaminate the
trucks before they leave the prop
erty.”
Gov. Guy Hunt, who along with
other state officials went to court last
year to try to block the shipments,
said Tuesday the trucks will be in
spected by state troopers and Ala
bama environmental officials.
In announcing the inspection
plans, Hunt said Alabamians’ rights
were violated when they weren’t no
tified last year about the planned
disposal and allowed to participate
in the decision-making process. The
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency approved the toxic waste
disposal as part of their Superfund
clean-up program.
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■ GALVESTON (AP) — A powdery
Bubstance law enforcement authori
ties are finding along Texas beaches
Isn’t sand and costs a lot more.
I U.S. Customs agents say bundles
If cocaine believed to he part of a
Imuggler’s cache have been washing
Ishore for more than a week, includ
ing 55 pounds of cocaine valued at
in estimated $2.5 million.
Similar packages have been found
Aransas Pass, Port Aransas and on
aches in Matagorda County, said
.S. Customs Agent Cliff Wolfe.
The largest find was discovered
Blonday on Crystal Beach by a man
Bvho called the Galveston County
I Sheriffs Department.
The cocaine was wrapped in plas-
1 pc, tied with rope and marked with
| he word “centavo,” Wolfe said.
“They meant for it to stay dry,
nd it was still dry, despite the fact it
'bviously had been in the water for
|ome time,” he said, describing bar-
lacles growing on the packages.
Coast Guard boats are patrolling
lesolate stretches of beach regularly,
loping to intercept any more pack-
■ges.
2 “If anybody finds any of it, I hope
lobody opens the package,” said
loast Guard Petty Officer James
Gutknecht, at the Port O’Connor
station. “This cocaine is pretty po
tent stuff.”
I Gutknecht said officials aren’t
■ure exactly how many packages
have washed up so far from what
lome believe is cargo from a drug
Inuggler’s ship that went down in
Iropical Storm Allison three weeks
ago.
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
For sail
Reggie Samdval, Michelle Broussard and Deanne Hovorak try
to persuade Tim Wright tojoin the TAMU Sailing Club.
B-2 bomber meets House resistance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force officials taking
their case for the stealth bomber to the House were met
Wednesday with stiff resistance from budget-conscious
lawmakers and a warning that the half-billion-dollar
aircraft could become a “museum piece.”
“Seven to eight billion dollars a year on one weapons
system is twice as much as we’re spending on Star Wars..
I just can’t sell that,” Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., chairman
of the House Armed Services Committee, told Air
Force officials arguing for the second straight day on
Capitol Hill for the B-2 bomber.
Air Force Secretary Donald Rice and Chief of Staff
Larry Welch said that the radar-evading bomber out
paces improvements in Soviet air defenses and that ter
mination of the $70 billion program would undermine
the nation’s nuclear deterrent force
The officials also reminded lawmakers that the gov
ernment has already invested about $23 billion in the
plane and that stretching out the program over a num
ber of years could raise the aircraft’s price considerably.
By Aspin’s calculations, a single B-2 bomber could
cost about $ 1 billion.
“We hope our witnesses today will be able to put the
B-2 program into perspective for us,” Aspin said at the
start of the hearing. “Otherwise, there remains the very
real possibility that the B-2 will become a museum
piece.”
Members of the House panel reacted to the presenta
tion much the same way as did members of the Senate
Armed Services panel who listened to the Air Force of
ficials on Tuesday.
A&M receives honor for system
to cut Duncan Dining Hall costs
By Mia B. Moody
STAFF WRITER
Texas A&M has received a Cost
Reduction Award for recently im
plementing a more efficient pro
gram to feed the Corps of Cadets.
The program is expected to save
the University over $290,000 per
year.
The dining hall received the
award Monday at a national confer
ence sponsored by the National As
sociation of College and University
Business Officers and the United
Steel Foundation.
Lloyd Smith, director of food
services, said the Plate Ready System
and the Tray Accumulator System
earned the prestigious award for
A&M.
“The two new systems installed in
Duncan Dining Hall during its reno
vation are expected to save the Uni
versity more than $290,000 per year
in labor, food and supply costs,” he
said. “Duncan is the only place of its
size where 180 people per minute
can be served a wide variety of food
in a satisfactory way.”
The Plate Ready System allows all
2,200 of the cadets to be served and
seated in 12 minutes, Smith said.
The system that the dining hall
uses to collect trays also was praised.
“The Tray Accumulator provides
230 tray slots that automatically ad
vance each tray into a central dish
washing area as another tray is
placed into the slot,” he said. “The
system can hold 1,894 trays at one
time.”
Senior cadets Chad Corbett, an
engineering technology major from
Irving, and Allen Hess, an aerospace
engineering major from Ft. Worth,
said the new system is more efficient
than the old family style service they
used to receive.
“When it was family style, the
food would be placed in the middle
of the table and we could get what
we wanted,” Corbett said. “If we
wanted more we could ask a waiter
to bring whatever we wanted. We
got our food quicker, but there was a
lot more food wasted.”
Hess said there would always be
trashcans full of food left after the
Corps finished eating.
“Now people get what they want
to eat and there isn’t that much food
left to throw away,” Hess said.